Month: July 2016

I love split releases. They give you an easy way to discover new bands, and most of the time I pick them up when I know one of the bands, so the rest is a fun surprise! This is an even rarer beast : a three-way split, between bands I’m not entirely familiar with, although…

Swans have been around for a while. They started way back in 1982, stopped in 1997 and then reinvented themselves in 2010. That’s also when I first heard of them, not really being into experimental no-wave when I was 10 years old. So my introduction came pretty late, but I was immediately hooked, listening to…

There are some records you keep coming back too. You feel like there is a personal connection, maybe because of the lyrical content, the mood, hte style, or reasons unknown. Heartbreaker is one of those records for me. I must’ve listened to it hundreds of times, and I can’t seem to get tired of it.…